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Preservation," by A. H. Schultz ; "Anthropometry," by A. Hrdlicka ; "The 

 International Agreement for the Unification of the Anthropometric Measurements 

 to be made on the Living Subject," being the Report of the Commission appointed 

 by the Fourteenth International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and 

 Archaeology at Geneva (1912) ; " English Translation of the Official Version," by 

 W. L. H. Duckworth ; and "The Effect of the War upon the American Child," 

 by Ruth Mclntire. 



The following papers on Social Anthropology may be re- 

 corded : 



In the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. xlviii, pt, 2. — 

 " Some Sakai Beliefs and Customs," by I. H. N. Evans ; "The Two-handed Clubs 

 of the Maoris," by H. D. Skinner ; and " Some Aspects of Nayar Life," by K. M. 

 Panikkar. 



In Man. — "Witches' Transformations into Animals "(December), and "Witches' 

 Fertility Rites" (April), by Miss M. A. Murray ; "The Agiba Kult of the Kerewa 

 Culture," by A. C. Haddon (December) ; " Some Thoughts on the Subject of 

 Language," by A. H. Gardiner (January) ; " Notes on Pokomchi (Guatemala)," by 

 A. C. Breton (January) ; " Hut-burning in the Ritual of India," by W. Crooke 

 (February) ; " Note on the Gourd as an Amulet in Japan," by W. L. Hildeburgh 

 (February) ; "The Highest known Maya Number," by R. C. E. Long (March) ; 

 " Mothers and Children at Laguna," by Elsie C. Parsons (March) ; " Milk 

 Customs of the Todas," by Sir J. C. Frazer and K. R. Achariyar (March) ; and 

 " The Northern Babunda,'' by E. Torday (April). 



In the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, January 191 9. — "Four Assyrio- 

 logical Notes," by S. Langdon, and " Labour Songs in India," by W. Coldstream. 



In Folk-Lore, vol. xxix, No. 3. — "A Medieval Legend of the Terrestrial 

 Paradise," by M. Esposito ; "The Provenience of Certain Negro Folk-tales," by 

 Elsie C. Parsons ; " 'Prentice Pillars : the Architect and his Pupil," by W. Crooke ; 

 and "The Black Pig of Kiltrustan," by Eleanor Hull. 



And the following papers on Prehistoric Anthropology may 

 be recorded : 



In the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, vol. ii, pt. 4. — 

 "The Ancestry of the Mousterian Paleolithic Flint Implements," also "The 

 Flaking and Flake-characteristics of a Pre-Red-Crag Rostro-Carinate Flint 

 Implement," and also "The Fracturing of Flints by Natural Agencies in Geo- 

 logical Deposits," these three papers being by J. Reid Moir ; " Surface Paleolithic 

 Implements from the Chilterns," by A. Peake ; " Surface Implements of a late 

 Paleolithic Site," by Major J. D. Hill; "A Flint-implement Factory Site near 

 Milverton, Somerset," by C. F. Moysey ; " Flint Implements from the Plough- 

 lands of South-west Leicestershire," by A. J. Pickering ; and " More about Wind- 

 mill Hill, Avebury, and Grime's Graves," by the Rev. H. G. O. Kendall. 



In the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. xlviii, pt. 2. — 

 "Excavations Conducted at Ghar Dalam (Malta) in the Summer of 1917," by 

 G. Despott. 



In Man.— "A Piece of Carved Chalk from Suffolk," by J. Reid Moir 

 (February), and a reply called, "The Latest Prehistoric Mare's Nest," by Sir 

 H. H. Howorth (May). 



